Stealth Acoustic Materials

[EN] We report the experimental design of a one-dimensional stealth acoustic material, namely a material that suppresses the acoustic scattering for a given set of incident wave vectors. The material consists of multiple scatterers, rigid diaphragms, located in an air-filled acoustic waveguide. The position of the scatterers has been chosen such that in the Born approximation a suppression of the scattering for a broad range of frequencies is achieved and thus a broadband transparency. Experimental results are found in excellent agreement with the theory despite the presence of losses and the finite size of the material, features that are not captured in the theory. This robustness as well as the generality of the results motivates realistic potential applications for the design of transparent materials in acoustics and other fields of wave physics.This work has been funded by RFI Le Mans Acoustique (Region Pays de la Loire) in the framework of the APA-MAS project, by the project HYPERMETA funded under the program Etoiles Montantes of the Region Pays de la Loire as well as by the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (Spain) and European Union FEDER through project FIS2015-65998-C2-2-P. V. Romero-Garcia and L. M. Garcia-Raffi acknowledge the short-term scientific mission (STSM) funded by the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action DENORMS - CA15125.Romero-García, V.; Lamothe, N.; Theocharis, G.; Richoux, O.; García-Raffi, LM. (2019). Stealth Acoustic Materials. Physical Review Applied. 11(5):1-9. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.11.054076S19115Shen, C., Xu, J., Fang, N. X., & Jing, Y. (2014). 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